Reading an article on the New York Times website, I was slightly frightened. An article by Maureen Dowd, called "Playing All the Angles", gave me a new perspective on the type of women that are now in politics.
Remember that girl in your high school? The one that seemed to have everything? She was head cheerleader, she dated the most athletic guy in school, whether it was football or basketball, or even the swim team captain, it didn't really matter. What mattered was that she was the girl that everyone wanted to know, even though she was probably the worst person you could be around in order to make yourself feel better. She was the one who put down the people who actually liked school and cared about things other than her dating life. The kind of girls that I've always tried to avoid in life.
Well...apparently they're showing up in politics. Is anyone else absolutely terrified? Maybe they've been there for a while, and I just haven't noticed. Cleverly disguising themselves in professional pantsuits and elegantly understated makeup, while at the same time speaking those words that have come from their lips for years, only now they're getting paid to do the only thing that they know how to do: Speaking the same taunting words that gave them their status at the top of the totem pole in high school, and now is giving them their new found position.
The article was a fascinating read, and almost had me grinning in several parts, and I found myself nodding at certain sections, realizing that I knew exactly what she was talking about. Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/opinion/17dowd.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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